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Originally Posted by Textcritic
It is nonsensical to imagine that a player's determination to stay or leave the team that drafted him correlates to his level of skill and ability.
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But to what end? I personally think Rittich has more room to grow, but I certainly understand why some think he is what he is at this point. So how far do the Flames follow this philosophy IF THERE IS NO GOALIE IN THE SYSTEM READY TO MAKE THE JUMP TO THE NHL?
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Methinks the analytical, Archeologist speaks and not a dream filled star struck kid suddenly in the bigs!
BTW I do admire your work, very much! My backgrounds Astronomy but I've subscribed to Archeology for 20 years. Every second month! You do cool work.
If you're suggesting you can simply buy and trade an entire roster and win a cup with no successful draft picks I would sure argue the point.
History says different, obviously there is something to the amount of drive and desire young players exhibit when they've made it bigs because the other elephant in the room is the number of home grown players every cup winner has. It goes way further back. 11 PLUS team drafted or FAs from europe NCAA.
You can't suggest that all players are just cold fish and the money is all its about. 11 plus home grown on just about every winner except as I recall LA with 8 or 9 led by Kopitar. You're submission doesn't account for the ego's. If you just get a cup of coffee thats different but to make the team like Mangiapane and Dube just did is exciting for them and both would loose a bit of confidence for a while if they were part of a trade this fall. It would shock them a bit.
How do you whos going to play well and improve in goal, I sure don't. When Rittich signed no one, likely even Management knew, he'd be a starter 2 seasons in a row at all. I sure didn't.
2 seasons ago Binnington was a bust, laboring as a loaner to a Boston farm team when he got the call up.
Voodoo goalies. I know having a core of good and great players home grown wins. I would suggest for what ever reason goalies are a huge part of that "core" group tradition.